Saint Louis University’s Department of Women's and Gender Studies also sponsors events
throughout the academic year to support scholarship and leadership. Our event calendar
is available on our homepage.

Each semester, SLU’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies sponsors a brown-bag
lunch series where speakers present their research and engage the audience in discussion
about the topic. The topics vary, as do the disciplines of the speakers and the points
of view they represent.

These informal settings provide unique and wonderful opportunities to learn about
the range of women's and gender studies scholarship and to meet students and faculty
with similar interests. Since this event takes place around the noon hour, you are
encouraged to bring your lunch.

"Takeover Thursdays" was an idea born of the women's and gender studies department's
fight to claim more space on campus. These events are held at different off-campus
locations and offer a safe space to discuss feminist thought and activities. Students,
both within and outside the department, have the opportunity to meet other women's
and gender studies students, faculty and staff in an informal setting.

SLU’s Women's and Gender Studies Advisory Board meetings are the equivalent of department
meetings in traditional disciplines. However, in addition to having women's and gender
studies faculty represented, the group includes affiliated faculty, and graduate and
undergraduate students.

Topics range from which courses to offer and events to sponsor to discussions of how
to continue growing the department. Board members serve for two-year terms. Student
board members serve for one year. The monthly meetings are open to everyone and attendees
do not have to be board members to participate.

Behind on your papers? Need a day to write and work on them? Join the Department of
Women’s and Gender Studies for a day of writing at the end of the semester. Drop in
anytime with your laptops, paper and pens, notepads and books to enjoy an environment
of idea sharing and writing. The department provides coffee, tea and snacks all day.
All faculty and students are welcome.

Open to anyone interested, the feminist reading group focuses on topics within current
feminist scholarship. Regular attendance is not required. If you have a topic you
would like to read about, suggest it by sending an email to jennifer.semsar@slu.edu.